Science & Technology

Sushil Tyagi, co-founder of Berkley Marine Robotics, has always been passionate about the ocean. Tyagi came from humble beginnings in a village in India to studying ocean engineering at Indian Institute of Technology and UC Berkley in the 90s.

The University of Plymouth has strengthened its position at the forefront of clean maritime innovation thanks to a new initiative that will deploy the world’s largest network of electric workboats.

The underwater remains of a ship built in Fremantle in 1876 and which sunk off the coast several years later can now be explored with ease thanks to a digital 3D model unveiled by Curtin University and the Western Australian Museum following the recent 143rd anniversary of its loss.

Global ocean insights specialist Miros has advanced its offering to the maritime sector by integrating weather forecast layers into its Miros Cloud Home solution (miros.app).

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., a leader in innovative and cost-effective low-carbon marine power, data and service solutions, has announced the award of three separate Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple-Award Contracts (MAC) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Carmen G. Cantor concluded the 47th annual meeting of the United States Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF) this week.

Scientists examining underwater cliff ecosystems onboard research vessel Falkor (too) using the 4,500 meter robot, ROV SuBastian, have discovered two pristine coral reefs in the waters surrounding the Galápagos Islands.

NOAA has launched an interactive dashboard that indicates high compliance with endangered North Atlantic right whale mandatory vessel speed zones. The dashboard is generated from Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) data for vessels that are subject to existing mandatory speed regulations and allows users to explore vessel activity by speed, season, month, speed zone and vessel type. AIS is an automated safety tracking system that provides the location — and other information — of vessels in a given area.

Valuable simulation insights have traditionally been kept on-premise, making them unavailable to key personnel in the organization. As a result, important use cases are only utilized during project development instead of being available during normal operations.

Evolution without Compromise

There is a growing consensus that autonomy will play a significant role in the future of maritime operations. While full autonomy in all maritime sectors might be a distant goal, the incremental adoption of autonomous technologies is already evident.

All American Marine (AAM), together with NOAA, announces the launch of RV GANNET for NOAA Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary (GRNMS).

Saildrone, a world’s leading provider of ocean data using uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs), and Bat Conservation International, a global conservation organization dedicated to ending bat extinctions, are excited to announce today the completion of a first-of-its-kind mission to study bats in an offshore environment using an ultrasonic microphone mounted on a Saildrone USV.